Les Esprits des Villes-Mortes (Spirits from the Cities of the Dead)
Medium
etching, roulette, drypoint, lift ground, and aquatint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed inside plate mark): 24.9 × 35.5 cm (9 13/16 × 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection, Gift in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2017.199.1
About the Artist
Félix-Hilaire Buhot · 1847–1898
Félix-Hilaire Buhot was born on July 9, 1847, in Valognes, a small town in Normandy, France, into a modest family—his father a wine merchant and his mother a seller of women's clothes. Orphaned by age seven after losing both parents and his maternal grandmother, he was raised by relatives, including a godfather, and received an early introduction to drawing from his adopted mother's nephew. In 186...